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Definition of Neighbouring
1. Adjective. (British Canada) Situated or living nearby or adjacent to. ¹
2. Adjective. (alternative spelling of neighboring) ¹
3. Verb. (British Canada) (present participle of neighbour) ¹
4. Verb. (alternative spelling of neighboring) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Neighbouring
1. neighbour [v] - See also: neighbour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neighbouring
Literary usage of Neighbouring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"... and leaving them afterwards upon the neighbouring more, ... by the neighbouring
ponds and marines, obliged them to remove to La C;ille, another inlet, ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1846)
"In the work of destruction, the ambition of the Romans was often checked and
repulsed by the neighbouring cities and their allies : in the first siege of ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1811)
"As soon, however, as the gloom began to disperse, exertions were made at the Cape
of Good Hope, and at the neighbouring Isle of Bourbon, to dispute the ..."
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